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Grave Dangers, Interview of the Heroine

Question:Pamela,
what made you leave your comfortable home in the Silicon Valley to go to the
hills of Vermont?

Answer:My husband
was on a business trip for General Electric and he had an opportunity to take
the family with him for a year.

Question: Did you always go on business trips with your
husband?

Answer:Only when it
was in the U.S. and if it was for a school year.

Question: Did you mind taking the children out of school?

Answer:Oh No. I
felt that they were gaining more by living in new places than they could by
staying home.

Question:Did you
feel that way after going to Vermont for a year?

Answer:Well, what
happened in Vermont was a very unusual set of circumstances.

Question:Why?

Answer:Well, my son
could have been killed by a very dangerous man.

Question:That would
be a great deterrent for anybody, Pamela.

Answer:I wouldn’t
ever want to experience something like that again.

Question: Did you live in a dangerous area?

Answer:Actually if
it had been more peaceful I think I would have been floating on air.

Question:I always
think of Vermont and colors.

Answer:The color of
the leaves in the Fall, and the falling snow in the Winter, combined with the
rivers and creeks were so desirable.

Question:How did it
happen that your son was almost killed in such a peaceful setting?

Answer:He met a
young man who had witnessed the murder of his mother and had been hiding in the
woods for five years.

Question: How did he happen to meet him?

Answer: My sonwas
attacked by some mountain men while he was riding his dirt bike, and the young
man came to his rescue.

Question: Did the young man tell you who killed his mother?

Answer:Well,
eventually we got the whole story and decided to bring the criminal to justice.

Question:How did
you do that?

Answer:Our next
door neighbor, a former monk, joined forces with us and we set a trap for him.

Question:If you set
a trap how did your son get involved.

Answer: The murderer arrived early and saw us. He kidnapped
my son before we could do anything.

Question:So after
your trap backfired what happened.

Answer: We called the police and my husband rushed home. In
the meantime my neighbor and I chased up the mountain after him.

Question: Did you catch him?

Answer: No.We had
everyone on the mountain looking for them.

Question: That must have been so frightening for you,
Pamela.

Answer:When you’re
fighting to save your son you don’t have time to be afraid. My mind was racing
like a train to outwit this killer.

Question:What did
the monk do to help you?

Answer: He was driving. He knew everyone on the mountain
and where they lived, but there were many boarded up vacation cabins and we
couldn’t search them all.

Question:Well, you
wouldn’t be here talking to me if you hadn’t saved your son.

Answer:It wasn’t
that easy but I have to leave you here.

Question:Did you
ever bring the criminal to justice???

Myrna Ericksen

Myrna’s Bio:

I was born in the Panama Canal Zone and traveled back and
forth to the U.S. until I graduated from High School. I then attended nursing
school in San Jose, California, and graduated from our local college with
medicine as my background.

I married my husband of 55 years and we had six children,
three boys and three girls.While they
were growing up I taught Great Books in their school, was a den mother, 4-H
leader, organized and led a teen club, was a museum docent, helped in food kitchens,
taught religious education, entertained on stage, and generally volunteered
where needed.

When my children were all in or out of college I began my
book writing career. Prior to this I had free-lanced articles and poetry to
various publications. My first book, “Onward Peregrinos,” launched my career as
an author of books.I went on to write 7
more books in many different genre’s, including two mysteries, "Grave
Dangers," and "Murder in Southport."

My husband and I moved to the Sacramento area when our home
became too big for the two of us.We
enjoy visiting our children and grandchildren who are now scattered across four
states.

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